ABSTRACT

Despite the importance of assessment accommodations, little is known about its use in the context of classroom assessments. To provide guidance for teachers on how to best support their emergent bilinguals during classroom assessments, there may be ideas from large-scale assessments that can be used in the classrooms. This article, a targeted literature review, examines themes and evidence relative to assessment accommodations for emergent bilinguals in mainstream classrooms. Based on the purpose of this paper, there are five essential themes in the finding section: 1) linguistic complexity in content-area assessments; 2) definition of assessment accommodation; 3) selection and implementation of assessment accommodations in mainstream classrooms; 4) effectiveness of specific assessment accommodations, and 5) challenges of translating large-scale assessment accommodations to classroom use. Findings suggest the importance of explicitly teaching assessment accommodations and designing assessment languages to maximum accessibility for all students. This article also has implications for future research.

摘要

尽管评估住宿非常重要，但对于在课堂评估中的使用知之甚少。为了为教师提供有关如何在课堂评估中最好地支持他们的新兴双语者的指导，可能会有一些大规模评估的想法可以在课堂上使用。本文是有针对性的文献综述，它针对主流教室中针对新兴双语者的评估工具，研究了相关主题和证据。基于本文的目的，发现部分有五个基本主题：1）内容区域评估中的语言复杂性；2）评估设施的定义；3）在主流教室中选择和实施评估设施；4）特定评估工具的有效性，5）将大型评估设施转变为课堂使用的挑战。研究结果表明，明确教授评估工具和设计评估语言以使所有学生获得最大便利的重要性。本文对未来的研究也有启示。